Cattle/Popular culture
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As one of the longest-domesticated animals, cows have played a significant role within Western popular culture. Sometimes carrying the power of life-directing myth, and sometimes merely depicted so as to evoke a hearty belly laugh, they have been portrayed in art, nursery rhymes, language idioms, advertisements, and cartoons and comics since the early 1800s.
Cows in the myth of the American West
Literature
- The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead[1]
- Pete Cow Puncher: A Story of the Texas Plains by Joseph B. Ames
Nursery rhymes
- The cow jumped over the moon
Language idioms
- Until the cows come home
- Cash cow
- How now brown cow?
- Holy cow
- Have a cow
- A sacred cow
- Cow-punch
- As awkward as a cow on roller skates
- Cowboy
- Cow poke
Film
- Edison's films of County Fairs
- Barnyard
- Cow and Chicken
Comics
- Civil War Era
- The Far Side
- London's Times
- The Man-Eating-Cow (Tick Comics)
Advertisements
;Ben and Jerry's
In 1983, Ben Cohen approached Vermont artist Woody Jackson about using Jackson's distinctive cow themed artwork as the hallmark of the fledgling Ben and Jerry's ice cream company.[1] The company has since grown to be a household name, operating around the world. The "Woody cow" remains a prominent part of the company's logo.
- Cow Brand Baking Soda
- Milk Maids
- BMW
- Borden - Elsie the Cow
- Chik-fil-a - The "Eat More Chikin" cows
Music
- Early American Folk
- The Dead Milkmen (band)
- Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother
Other
- Cow tipping
- Furniture
- Moofia
- Postage stamps
- I Never Saw a Purple Cow
- Dropping the Cow (comedy troupe)[2]
- Clothing[3]
- ↑ Woody Jackson. The Ben and Jerry's Story. Electronic document, http://www.woodyjackson.com/bennjerry.html. [http://www.webcitation.org/5PHKxwBoI Archived] June 1, 2007.